[plt-scheme] Re: package documentation

"Jacob Matthews" <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu>
writes:

> On 4/2/07, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz <jao at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> HTML docs are now listed as documentation on PLaneT right alongside
> doc.txt files; currently only one package:
>
> http://planet.plt-scheme.org/users/sweeney/sqlid-helper.plt/
>
> uses this feature. The way you get this to show up is by setting the
> now-misnamed "doc.txt" field in your info.ss file to point to the root
> of your documentation. (This is a new behavior; prior to yesterday
> doc.txt fields that weren't to files named doc.txt were ignored.) I

Excellent. Thanks for the tip.

> think that most people opt to use doc.txt files rather than HTML
> documentation just because it's much easier to work with (and in
> particular it's easier to generate a doc.txt file that the Help Desk
> knows how to search in a reasonable way).
>

I see. I had the impression that keyword search was a more or less
automated feature for users of tex2page (or plain text doc.txt), but i
see i should take a closer look at the documentation.

>> On a related note, i've tried to create a user on PLaneT, but have not
>> received the confirmation email after some 12 hours... is that normal?
>
> No. Every time I've had PLaneT mail me since moving to the new server
> the response has been immediate. Maybe the confirmation email got
> caught up in a spam filter somewhere?
>

Maybe. I haven't been able to locate it, though. Should i just try to
re-register with the same login?

Thanks again,
jao
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